Patrick Troughton Quotes

Space is going to be commonplace.

If we can clean up our world, I'll bet you we can achieve warp drive.

There is a potential to be a big explosion of what spaceflight is gonna mean to just an everyday person in the near future. I think it's very hopeful for our young people: all the exciting things that they could be doing in the future relative to space and space exploration.

I am humbled and excited by new opportunities for me to support and share the amazing work NASA is doing to help us travel farther into the solar system and work with the next generation of science and technology leaders.

Scientists are not these guys in lab coats deep in the inner bowels of universities and hospitals with their Bunsen burners. They're the people molding the culture that we live in, the future of our culture, and the technology we rely on every day.

Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.

Look how far the human race has come in terms of air and space travel in the last hundred years. So in the next couple of thousand years, you've got to believe that we're going to be able to do all kinds of amazing things.

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.

Science is inextricably linked to our economy. It has been for the last 50 years and it will be for the next 50 years.

Our security and independence require that more young people devote themselves to science and research.

Innovation is the key to the future, but basic research is the key to future innovation.

Who brings tomorrow into the present if not the scientists, technicians and engineers?

I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization

Humanity is not forever chained to this planet.

Never bet against science!

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable.

I truly believe that everything Sci-fi taught me as a child about an efficient and wondrous world will be happening in my lifetime.

Science, science is great. I love science. With any luck, it'll save us all.

Scientists are not these guys in lab coats deep in the inner bowels of universities and hospitals with their Bunsen burners. They're the people molding the culture that we live in, the future of our culture, and the technology we rely on every day. These are the rock stars of our time right now.

Science does not just drive space travel - space travel also drives science.